Car construction.



C. E. FULLER.

CAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 14. m4,

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

CHARLES E. FULLER, 0F OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

CAB, CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 191

Application filed September 14. 1914. Serial No. 861,571.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Forum, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of freight cars for railways, and the purpose of the invention is the provision of an inexpensive means for attaching temporary grain doors in the side or end doorways of box or other house cars of steel or other construction.

With old-style wooden cars it was the usual practice to nail these doors in place, and the impossibility of doing so in steel cars and other cars having steel door frames has caused considerable inconvenience, and has required the provision of more-or less complicated and expensive grain-door structures.

The present invention provides wooden or other nailing strips, one at each side of the doorway, whether relating to the side door or end door of a house car, and to these the ordinary temporary grain door may be' nailed, just as was done in wooden cars. These nailing strips are so mounted with reference to the sides of the doorway, that they make tight joints with the sheathing of the car, are readily removable for replacement, and contribute. to the strength of the door frame. I shall describe the preferred form of th invention in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which 2- Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section through the side of a car at the doorway, showing my invention applied and a temporary grain-door in place; Fig. 2 is a section (on an enlarged scale) taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the door post 'with' parts broken away to show the construction.

In the drawings 1 represents the floor of the car, 2 the roof, and 3 a portion of the roof framing. The door frame proper 4 is constructed of angle iron or other suitable structural shape, and to this is riveted the metal plate or sheathing 5 of the car body. The plate 5 is flanged over the inner edge of the door frame 4 at each side of the door way, as shown at 6, and lies against one flange of an. angle iron 7, which with a comtemplated.

panion angle strip 8 confines three sides of a wooden nailing strip 9. This leaves ex posed that side of the strip which faces the interior of the car, and to that face the temporary grain-door may be nailed. Such doors commonly consist of planks 10, but the construction of the door is not vital to the present invention, and any form of door adapted to be nailed in place may be used.

Bolts 11' pass through the door frame 4, the angle strips 7 and 8 andthe nailing strip 9 and hold the same in assembled relation. The nailing strip is thus clamped tightly to the sheathing '5, whilethe arrangement of the two angles permits the tight clamping of nailing strips of different thicknesses.

The nailing strips thus add strength to the door frame, are readily renewable by merely removing the' bolts 11, and permit the use of grain-doors of the simple and convenient form heretofore used. This last fea ture is of the greatest practical importance,

as it avoids theprovision and storage of cumbersome and expensive doors provided with special fastening means. Other materials than wood may be used for the nailing strips if preferred, and structural variations from the specific form shown are con- Having thus described my invention, what I claim is f 1. The combination with a freight car having a metallic door frame, of a clamping strip removably mounted adjacent said frame; bolts passing through said frame and'clamping strip; and a nailing strip of wood or the like clamped between said clamping strip and frame.

2. The combination -with a freight car having a metallic door frame of two companion clamping members mounted thereon; releasable connections between said clamping members; and a nailing strip clamped between said members to present a nailing surface adjacent the doorway.

3. The combination with a freight car having a metallic door frame and a metallic sheathing connected thereto, of a clamping strip; bolts conn'ectin said clamping strip and frame; and a nai ing strip clamped by said clamping strip to said door ame in close engagement with'said sheathing.

4. The combination with a box freight car having a metallic door-frame, of nail re ceiv'ing members one for each side of. h

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doorway and each comprising a pair of mename to this specification in the presence of tallic clanlip member; of ailgullalig cross secitwo subscribing Witnesses. tion, a nai ing strip 0 W00 or i e materia and releasable connections passing through CHARLES FULLER 5 said clamp members, strip and door-frame Witnesses:

to hold the same in assembled relation. H. BAN ARSDALE, In testimony whereof I have signed my A. H. Fn'rrnns. 

